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Comment by Lord Rees of Ludlow

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Astronomer Royal and Crossbench life peer in the UK House of Lords.
Machines supplement, if not replace, white-collar jobs, routine legal work, accountancy and even surgery. This clearly needs regulation at a national level.
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UK Parliament, House of Lords, “AI Regulation Bill,” 4 June 2026.
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Require AI labs to publish safety evaluations before deploying frontier models
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AI Verified Official Hansard transcript, House of Lords AI Regulation Bill debate, 4 June 2026, lines 155–161: the author says AI’s workplace impacts clearly need national regulation; this is relevant and strongly indicates support for a frontier-model safety-evaluation requirement. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 1h ago
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AI Verified Official Hansard transcript, House of Lords AI Regulation Bill debate, 4 June 2026, lines 155–161: author says AI clearly needs national regulation; “for” the safety-evaluation requirement is the most likely position. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 1h ago

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AI Verified Official Hansard transcript, House of Lords AI Regulation Bill debate, 4 June 2026, lines 155–158: Lord Rees directly says the stored wording that AI’s replacement/supplementing of work needs national regulation. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 1h ago
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